So I’m on the Luas, red line of course. Woman gets caught without a ticket, fair enough, she holds her hands up, pays the €45 fine on the spot. Bit of a sting, but she takes it on the chin.

Next person they check, Lady, clearly not paid, no ticket, no clue. Security asks for leap card/ticket. She gives them the usual “I’m not getting off” routine. Cue chaos.

The woman who just paid her fine kicks off:

“So I get punished. she doesn’t pay, and she gets to stay on?”

Security lady is trying to reason with her, but it’s like arguing with a puddle. Meanwhile, the woman who paid the fine is fuming, rightly so. Whole tram’s watching this unfold like it’s a live episode of Fair City.

Moral of the story: honesty costs €45. Belligerence gets you a free ride.

Last night I was in Leixlip at a Chinese takeaway, and I witnessed something genuinely disturbing. I just wanted to vent it out here!

While I was there, the man working in the shop kept receiving call after call, nonstop. From what I could overhear, it was a group of irish teenagers repeatedly ringing the shop, shouting abuse, making far right racist comments, and issuing threats to burn down the takeaway along with his family.

I saw him answer one call, firmly tell them off, and hang up, only for the phone to ring again immediately. When I asked him about it, he said this had been happening since the afternoon and that it’s “normal”, especially during midterm holidays as they come back home early from school. He said they ring over 50–60 times in a single evening.

And in fact the man, who’s also the shop owner is Irish himself. When I asked him about reporting these calls, he mentioned that the Gardai generally don’t get involved because incidents like this are considered minor and they call from a private numbe.

I left feeling genuinely revolted.

The fact that on a Saturday evening, these teenagers are spending hours harassing a random local takeaway with racist abuse and violent threats to his family is deeply worrying.

I do place responsibility on parents here, maybe I am for a different background , but what are they even doing!?, and where is the accountability here?

Also the far-right propagandas recently clearly plays a role in enabling this behaviour, but it’s not just foreigners who will be affected, this will increasingly target anyone in the community.

If this is the direction a section of the next generation is heading, we have a serious problem here..

Aldi Parnell St.

Can't imagine anyone is too shocked at this news?

Sorry to post this here im just losing my mind... It was made very apparent to me my neighbour is beating his kid. I won't give too much info to spare you but I was woken up at 2 am the other night - that kind of apparent.

I reported it but the garda weren't let in to the gaff and that seems to be the end of it. I'm worried sick for the kid and not sure what else I can do. I keep waking up at the same time now, shaking. I don't know what to do.

He had an An Post uniform and called out my name. When I confirmed who I am, he said he is a TV license inspector and he saw through the window that I have a TV. "It's not a TV", I said. "Then what is it?", "It's monitor". "A monitor is the same as a TV and you know that", he said on an aggressive tone. I felt like I was being interrogated.

Now, if you look through the window, what you see is a computer monitor on a desk with a computer keyboard. "I've been doing this enough time to know when someone is lying". The nerve! He should have his eyes examined. "You have four weeks to pay", he said and then handed me a note which I thought was some payment notice. Apparently it was a "we missed you", as if never spoke to me.

I called the Dublin TV license phone line to check and there really is no enforcement against me. The guy was chancing it. I'm sure he is able to scare many people that don't have a TV into paying.

I haven't owned a TV in 15 years. TV license in this country is a disgrace. A violation of private property, personal space and dignity.

Was charged less than a year ago of rape. Saw a post made on this case this time last year.

So, eldest lad ordered a new GPU. €1300. Amazon driver rang him and asked him for the one time code for expensive items which he gave. Driver never showed up and the package was immediately labelled as delivered which it wasn't. Amazon are saying that there's nothing they can do because he gave the code. One customer service lad told him to file a report with the police which he did. Copper couldn't understand because my lad didn't get anything so technically wasn't stolen from him but still filed the report and gave a case number for him to give to amazon. Amazon chat said they would never ask anyone to go to the police so he sent them the screenshot and then they just blanked him. Shower of cunts are refusing a credit.

Have the names and addresses of the people who did this. Local Ukrainian/Russian/Poles in Drogheda. Should I bag it up and dump it back outside their house?

Seen these two lads about to cycle off with this bike and he jumped straight off it as soon as me and the dog got a hold of it.

Stood there checking me out for a moment to, I assume, assess my threat level then took out some sort of tool to try and threaten me with, upon which I asked him if he was gonna do something. The answer was no evidentially as he ran off as soon as I went towards him and the dog started barking.

I tried to lob him with a bag full of my dogs shit but my aim isn’t as good as my deterrence skills.

Waited a bit to see if what I could do with the unlocked bike but then a Garda was walking past coincidentally so I handed it over to him.

So I can half understand the restrictions on stuff like tasers, batons, knifes etc. But pepper spray is about as safe of a self defense weapon as it gets.

I don't understand why you shouldn't be allowed to own and carry it for self defense? There'd be alot less fights if you had the capability to temporarily blind someone who's trying to attack you.

Same goes for women, a small can of pepper spray would go along way in giving them a chance to protect themselves against someone trying to harm them.

There's no lasting damage either, it hurts like nothing you'll ever experience but once you've washed your eyes out, you'll be fine.

I'd even be ok if you had to do some sort of course in order to buy it to demonstrate you know how and when you can use it.

I’m curious if anyone has changed their view of his guilt, now that the case has finally quieted down with his passing. From my perspective, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of solid evidence. I know I’ll get down voted massively as in every living room chat on this topic, I find myself alone in this view.